First thing this morning around 7.30am we were in our inflatable boat the African Queen racing towards the whale hunting vessel, the Kyo Maru that had its harpooned manned. Just as we got to its bow the harpooned fired and the whale was struck just below her (she looked very feminine) left fin. Our mouths dropped as we watched the harpoon line zigzagging in the water with the whale writhing like a fish caught on a fishing line hook for a good five minutes, meaning that the neither the harpoon nor the explosive device had killed her
Amazing stories, footage and photographs of Greenpeace activists engaging the Japanese whalers in the southern ocean – including a birds eye view of a whaling ship ramming the Esperanza…
Greenpeace and the Japanese Whalers
